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There's still fire in his belly...
September 27, 2005, 09:55:23 am
From 8a.nu ( http://www.8a.nu/site2/index.php?country=GBR )
"The uk scene, unfortunatly, seems in the grasp of children with a 'cry at teacher' mentality when it comes to boulders, grades & FA's...Jens, mine & many other players conclusions about sly babyish emails & outright lies to cuase confusion etc, is 'grow up or at least try to evolve abit' God forbid any of you actually come to Scotland & tries a hard problem. But that would involve getting off your sassanach asses aye...rest easy, we really don't care or expect it. Wouldn't want you girls to get a hair out of place or chaff a nail aye. Interestingly the bulk of abuse comes from people who have NEVER been on my problems, NEVER climbed at that level anyway, & NEVER once contacted me privately through email or mobile to genuinely ask for beta, or my side to things. They prefer instead to use the small world of public climbing forums, & working off presumption, not solely to obtain truth, they try their best to look clever & pat eachothers backs, which in a physcological sense, really makes you wonder about the motivation behind it all aye. Or it should do if you're anywhere near level-headed. There was a day when you went to the crag to find out about a line, not cry from an armchair about a place, person or line you've never met, been to, or had the brass fuckin'balls to try...maybe I'm wierd, but that's how it works in Scotland.
The end result of all this, is that they show the rest of the climbing world what a sniping, underhand & immature approach the uk has comparred to Scotland & our neighbouring countries. In the end the world will see only that...which is sad, especially when the campaign involves creating false i.d's for forums to continue a rhetoric of ineffectual gutless pish [which is amusingly ironic considering the same people believe their whole basis to be swimming in truth...errr...] It doesn't effect me either way, as one who merely carries on climbing, training harder & developing things without fuss or noise; completing the lines without the need to climb for anyone elses approval. So to the small clique of idiots bent on discrediting people, keep on showing your true colours ya poofs, cause ít's built, & continues to build, a good picture of whos responsible as nicely as it digs the graves. Maybe they don't like the fact that arses can be kicked by climbers operating outside of the tiny brained Sheffield Mafia world. But lets be real, there always was more talent outside of the Peak than there was inside it aye. I worked as a reports writer for O.T.E long enough to see that [also a job you don't get without climbing recognition or recommendation] So carry on, please do keep cryin & moaning, 'cuase me & the rest of the lads, we love it.

Shake a leg ya bitches. You're getting fat in that - old hat. Get up here & get on my problems & it'll be me who respects you, becuase you really need to earn it right now.

Best new line of August: Back in Black -v12

Photos of Eat Yerself Whole-v15 will be with Jens at the newsdesk soon, as will the scorecard submission. And thanks for the informative wee chat Jens & may the i.p lists grow. Hörru! du har en rosa apa på skallen! "

I see he has taken to borrowing problem names again "Eat Yerself Whole". This is the name of one of tc's problems at Langstrath. I suppose it was a coincidence :roll:

P.S. I thought Scotland was in the UK?

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#1 There's still fire in his belly...
September 27, 2005, 10:31:29 am
Wow :shock:

I thought somebody did go up there and repeat some of his stuff recently?

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#2 There's still fire in his belly...
September 27, 2005, 10:37:55 am
there may be fire in his belly but theres still bullshit on his tongue.

Do scottish people ever actually use the word "sassanach" or is it just reserved for private fraser from dad's army and people doing third-rate impersonations of scotsmen?

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#3 There's still fire in his belly...
September 27, 2005, 10:38:42 am
yeah dave mccleod did -  and downgfraded them.

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#4 There's still fire in his belly...
September 27, 2005, 10:39:46 am
I think Dave Mac went and downgraded a bunch of problems. Si said he shouldnt have graded them when he was tired. Cant remember where I heard that or who told me.

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#5 There's still fire in his belly...
September 27, 2005, 10:44:12 am
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I worked as a reports writer for O.T.E long enough to see that [also a job you don't get without climbing recognition or recommendation]


This is not actually correct, I used to do a bit of reporting for OTE and it was much more a case of - You write something, you send it in, they publish it. Simple as.

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#6 There's still fire in his belly...
September 27, 2005, 03:25:10 pm
Why post such a long message whinging if your not fussed what anyone says...?

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#7 There's still fire in his belly...
September 27, 2005, 03:56:22 pm
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Why post such a long message whinging if your not fussed what anyone says...?


I suspect because he's a bit bonkers.

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#8 There's still fire in his belly...
September 27, 2005, 04:19:30 pm
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I suspect because he's a bit bonkers.


That's pure pish man, he's no' goin' bonkers man, irn bru, girders, mull of kintyre, ya don't saaave thooose……..

......och.

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#9 There's still fire in his belly...
September 27, 2005, 04:50:10 pm
Quote from: "dave"

Do scottish people ever actually use the word "sassanach" or is it just reserved for private fraser from dad's army and people doing third-rate impersonations of scotsmen?


scottish people who regularly use "sassanach" have always struck me as being a bit insecure, desparate for people not to forget for the briefest moment just how scottish they are.  In a peculiar way it reminds me of orangemen wearing bowler-hats etc - both weird tokenistic displays of affiliation?

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#10 There's still fire in his belly...
September 27, 2005, 05:43:03 pm
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt (because he published a new route of mine once in OTE which was nice for my seconds) as having his own reasons but why's he so keen to only give out gossip and beta privately, and not through a forum (or through Simon Panton's column)?  Are there access issues about everything of his that anyone's ever been interested in (as was probably the case when I wanted to know about his St Kilda trip), or has everyone just always talked about his stuff in (what would appear to him to be) a wankerish manner?

I should really have had a look at his bouldering guide when I was up in Scotland over the summer but we were there to tick Hard and Extreme Rock routes (the only one we tried (Stone) we didn't quite manage cleanly)!

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#11 There's still fire in his belly...
September 27, 2005, 05:45:42 pm
Oh goody, I thought this was going to be a SiO-less month but luckily something got squeezed in  :)

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#12 There's still fire in his belly...
September 27, 2005, 07:08:40 pm
Ok, how about we have a whip round and pay for Si O'Connor (or whatever gaelic version he's using now) to come down and strutt his stuff on some grit?

Now of course we all have off days (usually in my case when there's a 'y' in the day) but you can usually assess some one's ability past and present from the way they climb.

As far as I see it, he claims the numbers without any reliable evidence to substantiate the claims and then he's suprised when people call him a bull shitter?

What ever next?

Francis Holland not eating all the pies?

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#13 There's still fire in his belly...
September 27, 2005, 07:31:45 pm
:lol:

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#14 There's still fire in his belly...
September 28, 2005, 09:17:25 am
I'd rather pay to see FH try to restrain himself from a large stack of Melton Mowbrays  :lol:

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#15 There's still fire in his belly...
September 28, 2005, 09:46:23 am
maybe instead of doing his bent over rowing with a large rock.si could do it lifting big frank.

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#16 There's still fire in his belly...
September 28, 2005, 09:51:14 am
He'd be up to V19 in the blink of an eye if he were that strong.

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#17 There's still fire in his belly...
September 28, 2005, 10:02:59 am
i thought he was already.

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#18 There's still fire in his belly...
September 28, 2005, 09:25:00 pm
What that strong or ub to V XIX?

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#19 There's still fire in his belly...
September 28, 2005, 10:32:48 pm
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What that strong or ub to V XIX?

Have you been at the wine celler sloper?

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#20 There's still fire in his belly...
September 29, 2005, 12:31:50 am
Yes, just waiting to see if my inheritence has come up or the old cow is hanging on in htere out of spite.

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#21 There's still fire in his belly...
October 06, 2005, 04:12:27 pm
sorry to bring this round again, but Si's latest outpourings http://-v15-.blogspot.com (particularly Mini-Hooligan Leap Extension) are nothing short of awesome, if you have about 15 minutes to spare. they also include a link to a site called " 爻uk.mutual-dick-stroking.waffle爻" whick looks really good.

now i'm not going to bad mouth Si, but is this picture


a) an E9 7a
b) someone downclimbing a couple of easy moves from a ledge

he should really do a book, i'd buy it.

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#22 There's still fire in his belly...
October 06, 2005, 04:25:41 pm
c) some barely competent photoshopping

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#23 There's still fire in his belly...
October 06, 2005, 05:02:37 pm
Did he get all the way up there in Mochasins?
The website is awesome. Climbings answer to Julian Cope...

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#24 There's still fire in his belly...
October 06, 2005, 05:37:01 pm
Not sure how he got the idea that Font grades worked like this:

ED+ - Extremely difficult + [black-white]
Anything between ⓥ13 & ⓥ16

TD - Technically Difficult
Anything between ⓥ10 & ⓥ12

H- Hard
Anything between ⓥ6 & ⓥ9

Could be why his grades are a bit out?

 

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